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The House Freedom Caucus is voicing its displeasure with how a slew of end-of-year legislative priorities are being handled by congressional leaders and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), warning that its members are prepared to vote against legislation that does not meet its standards. An official position statement released Friday from the hard-line conservative group, which…
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is taking heat from the hard-right conservative wing of his conference over the addition of a short-term extension of the nation’s warrantless surveillance powers in the Defense authorization bill. Johnson huddled with a slew of animated GOP lawmakers — many of whom had long given his ousted predecessor headaches — on…
The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said he fears a lapse in the nation’s warrantless surveillance powers as Congress struggles to settle on a proposal or a pathway to reauthorize them ahead of an end-of-the-year expiration. Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which allows the…
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers on Monday introduced a bill to reauthorize the intelligence communities warrantless spy powers with new restrictions on accessing data collected on Americans and greater penalties for law enforcement who violate the law. The bill deals with Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows the intelligence community…
US lawmakers are proposing extending section 702 to foreign visitors and immigrants — a move which has been drawing a lot of flak.